Park Lodge Next To Old College Gate, Dulwich Park

SOUTHWARK

TQ3373 COLLEGE ROAD 636-1/15/238 (West side) Park Lodge next to Old College Gate, Dulwich Park

GV II

Park lodge. Dated 1889. By the LCC Architects' Department. Red brick in English bond; tilehanging, and mock box-framing to 1st floor and gables of oversailing hampers. Roofs of tile. Old English style. PLAN: cross wing plan, with gable facing to west range, and gable facing to return of east wing; both gables with ornamental barge-boards. EXTERIOR: 2 and a half storeys; 2-storey bays below each hamper, that to west wing rectangular becoming canted, that to the east wing canted; each of these ranges is one-window wide. Entrance under a Jacobean-style timber-framed porch set in corner between 2 wings, set into a square projection containing the entrance hall. Catslide dormer above entrance lights stair hall. 2-light window lights to west gable. Ornamental rainwater heads. To left, or west return, a very picturesque elevation with chimney breast, stepping up in stages to box-framed gable; in centre a rubbed brick plaque inscribed "L.C.C. 1889"; chimney finishes as a dormer stack. Stacks rebuilt to an original pattern since 1980. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms a group with Old College Gate and Dulwich Old College (qqv).

Listing NGR: TQ3317473706